Where to find local poker games?

Question

I tried on the internet already, unless there is some miraculous site I missed. Anybody help me? I'm sick of playing online.

Answer 1

Depending on where you live, ofcourse, but most pubs and clubs have a poker night at least one night of the week in my city.  Give your local working mans club, RSA and local bars a call someone will have something going on as Texas Holdem is so popular now.

Answer 2

Check your local firehalls and VFW-type places, they usually host poker tournaments (and cash games) "for charity".  THese could be considered underground, and they do run the risk of getting robed and/or raided...and they sometimes do.  But they're also fun.

Answer 3

Well,

First off, if you haven't tried either of these online poker sites:

1.  Pokerstars

2.  Full Tilt Poker

You should definitely give them a try before you give up on online poker, as they are the two biggest (in terms of number of players playing on the site) online poker sites on the net right now, and the most reliable.

If your reasons for disliking online poker are not trust/reliability issues (pokerstars and full tilt poker would solve this problem, since they are both extremely trustworthy and reliable, compared to any other site, by an incredibly wide margin, particularly pokerstars), but rather, that you wimply are not doing very well online, and are losing money online, then I can recommend a way of getting a lot better at online poker to where you can consistently make money at it.

What I would recommend is trying out a training site, such as cardrunners.com (cardrunners is by far the best one out there as of right now, although stoxpoker is also fairly decent, though it doesn't have nearly as big of a video archive, and hasn't been around for nearly as long).  The way a training site like cardrunners.com works is, you pay them a fee (it is worth the money in my opinon, as its something like $200 a year I think, and it waaaay more than pays for itself given how much you'll make online after you watch a lot of their training videos) and then they have a big selection of several hundred videos where when you watch the video, the videos are about 45 minutes to an hour long, each, and the setup is that they use a screen recorder to literally record everything on their computer screen while they play poker, and they wear a headset and verbally explain their thought process and reasoning on why they are playing their hands the way they are.  By "they" I'm referring to the cardrunners instructors, which are professional online poker players who have been making multiple millions of dollars at online poker over the past few years.  Watching these videos, in my opinion is about 100 times more useful that reading a book, or asking a friend for advice etc.  This is the way to learn how to consistently crush online poker games.

However

If this still doesn't float your boat, I would say that if you want to play live, the best is to just call up a bunch of your friends (not strangers, but friends) and ask them if they'd like to have a weekly home game.  See if you can get 2-8 people that want to do it, and if you can, then see which day is best for them, and make that day of the week "poker night" and then either always have the game at the same person's place (your place, or your friend's place or whatever) or have it alternate from person to person as far as where to hold the game each week.

I would recommend above playing in a casino, because casinos rake the pot pretty heavy, so it is possibly to be a marginally winning player, and lose money in the long run at the casino just because the rake is too large to overcome in the longrun, unless you are either beating the games at the casino very strongly, or are playing at higher stakes where the rake is much lower relative to the stakes than it is at lower stakes.

The one thing I would most strongly recommend AGAINST would be to play in any form of underground poker club or anything like that, where it is not a casino, but they charge you rake to play there.  NEVER play in those.  They are FREQUENTLY robbed (at gun point (no I'm not joking)) and also occasionally raided by the police, as they are illegal, although they are generally robbed more frequently than raided.  Either way, it sucks.  Don't play in underground clubs.  Ever.  Ever ever ever.  Don't do it.

That's the best advice I can give on this subject I guess.

Answer 4

Here are two sites you can use to find a local game:

www.findpokerpal.com/

poker.meetup.com/

Good luck.  By the way, bad beats, etc happen in live games too.  :-)

Answer 5

James beat me to it...

yes the miraculous site you missed is www.meetup.com

this is the best site out there for EVERYTHING!!!